## Metadata - Author: [[Robert Yi]] - Full Title:: Why Analytics Sucks - Category:: #🗞️Articles - Document Tags:: [[data analysis]], [[Data Analysis]], [[no work without knowing why (improve roi)]], [[No work without knowing why (improve ROI)]], - URL:: https://www.hyperquery.ai/blog/why-analytics-sucks - Read date:: [[2023-08-24]] ## Highlights Or the data janitor, as [[Jose Agüera]] said: > I’d never felt more viscerally that my role in the product-building process was that of data vending machine: request in, data out. It’s precisely this sort of transactional quality to our work that leads many of us to leave the industry ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01h8j117ga4bycp38f6kfxjcsg)) ^4eb134 > It’s precisely this sort of transactional quality to our work that leads many of us to leave the industry ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01hhstjdgaw5wx8p8nfv233nvj)) > • We are generally looped in at the end of decision-making processes, consigning our **autonomy** and development of our **mastery** to a narrow scope: we only get to decide “how to pull data”. As experts in answering “what data we need to pull”, this scope is diminutive, even discourteous. > • **Purpose** is often just half a sentence sent in the Slack request. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01h8j13651f5fdxzff0xbmjjhn)) > few wanted to fight tooth and nail for a seat at the table, particularly when we’re barely [keeping our heads above water](https://www.hyperquery.ai/blog/speed-changed-analytics-but-our-processes-need-to-change-too) ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01h8j141pew6b4pztdf06449y9)) > When you have a million queries to write, you don’t want to double your work by getting them peer reviewed and pushing them to git ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01h8j14e7xqw5fandra545nrds)) > those who crave greater purpose (and to some extent, autonomy) become PMs. Those who crave mastery become increasingly technical, often moving into more engineering-heavy roles > The process change we finally landed on at Airbnb was stricter adherence to **sharing SQL-based insights within docs** ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01h8j16mmk5y0wrjecxp97mw62)) > My one qualm with this, however, was that the friction was a bit too high, so only the most important reports were written up ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01h8j16rym32tpwws89z0adp29)) > Most ad-hoc work and insights were still buried in Slack ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01h8j16wsxrqr1xdpsgh88p047))